If you wanted some variation across the whole block you could use a cloud layer as per my original post. With the extra layer you can introduce some darker and lighter areas depending on the roughness and scale of the clouds:

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@ Possum Roadkill this stone texture is amazing , can you give me some tips on how did you make this if you don't mind? I really love it, I tried all step above but couldn't achieve what you did

I would be happy to. It's really very easy but very time consuming. Also you never get the same thing twice. Give me a day or so and I'll try to write up something. I just got my laptop back, my video card cooked last week. I've been using a borrowed laptop for the past few days. I'm glad you like it, I can't wait to see what you will be able to do with it, you do such amazing things on this board.

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Sorry guys I've been tied up for a few days with annoying issues, long story involving train cars and politicians and an evil rich guy. Anyway, I'll try to make this as simple as I can and maybe someone can make this into a tut. I hope you don't mind but I'm going to send this to Yellowman in a PM and copy it to David Atwell so that they can look it over so I can stay out of trouble by posting a tut within a tut. It's been a long week. Thanks.

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Sorry guys I've been tied up for a few days with annoying issues, long story involving train cars and politicians and an evil rich guy. Anyway, I'll try to make this as simple as I can and maybe someone can make this into a tut. I hope you don't mind but I'm going to send this to Yellowman in a PM and copy it to David Atwell so that they can look it over so I can stay out of trouble by posting a tut within a tut. It's been a long week. Thanks.

It's a community tutorial... you're supposed to put your tutorial for stone in it!

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it's a nice tutorial and yet i still fail to see why you really need to make these textures.. or atleast why i should, i guess it's still practice.. and if it's for a piece of art that makes sense then.

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@Zandy: this is off topic but did you make your sig and avatar?!!?!??!?!??!?!?

Yes and no. I made all the text, but the actual background of the picture was something I already had. If you wanted, I could try to either post the picture somewhere, or I could (maybe - maybe) try to devise a method to make something like it.

I was actually thinking about doing this already. I might try, if i do, I'll PM you or post back here with an edit.

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It's a community tutorial... you're supposed to put your tutorial for stone in it!

Sorry I had only been on the forum for a short while and did not want to break any rules.

I think I've found out how to make this texture. Maybe not exactly like it, but pretty close.

1. Run clouds on any settings. (you can mess with this to get different results)

2. Duplicate the layer.

3. Uncheck the top layer so that it's "invisible."

4. Median blur the bottom layer. Use a low percentile, 0-10. The radius is up to you. (you can play with these settings, too)

5. Emboss the bottom layer. If the line thing is pointed up, then the rock will be "stacked" down, with things like craters. If you point it downward, then you'll get results closer to the above.

6. Sepia the bottom layer. It should look pretty close to the above picture.

7. Re-check the top layer. It should just be clouds.

8. Median blur the top layer at the same settings you used on the bottom layer.

9. Set the blend mode of the top layer to overlay.

10. Turn down the opacity of the top layer to your liking.

I think this method works pretty well. I haven't found anything else that came as close. Does anyone else have any ideas about how this might work better?

Nope, not even close. I would not have been able to think of such a clever method as your's at that point. Like I said, I had only been using PdN for a short time and really just lucked out on this effect. I have used it a number of times and it never comes out the same. In fact sometimes it comes out pretty ugly.

I gave your method a try and it created something really cool, but not quite the same, but something that I will use.

This is the method I used to create this texture as best as I can remember it. Keep in mind that at that time I had no idea what I was doing and was just messing around. So I might have forgotten something.

Start with a couple of similar but contrasting colors like brown and tan

use clouds default settings

duplicate layer three times

turn off all the layers except the top one

use the magic wand with it set around 30 %

select the either the lightest or darkest color and delete it so

it leaves patches of the other color.

turn on the second layer from the top and do the same

thing except try to leave bigger patches. I may have changed the

wand settings to get larger patches on the other layers.

work through the layers doing the same thing with each layer

getting bigger patches than the last.

When I get through the top layers, adjust colors to a little lighter or darker

and create another layer, duplicate it four times.

I do the wand select just the opposite for the bottom layers except the very last layer. I leave the last

layer as it is. Make sure you turn off the top layers while doing this.

Then turn off all the bottom color layers. Turn on the top layer colors

and merge them down to one layer. Magic wand select a blank area, invert the selection

and apply the relief effect. Turn off the top layer and repeat the

same step with the bottom layers except the very bottom layer that was not

cut up. Turn on the remaining bottom layer and run the relief on it.

At this point you can either flatten the image or you can run the feather on the three layers and then merge them down.

It all depends on the effect you are looking for. You will need to play around with the settings on the relief effect to get what you want.